Show Who Are You Youe e The Roma Romance ce of pI o Your N Name By RUBY HASKINS ELLIS ELLISA A Brown I IT T WOULD be a superhuman task to ut attempt empt to corral corral all the Brown ancestors Into such such sucha a brief allotment of ot space but one can caD state ver very sketchily the very be beginning beginning begin begin- ln- ln I ning of the the then n name me and some of at Its prominent bearers In the early arly period period pe pe- nod of or Its history The name Itself signifies the color color color col col- or brown and persons who first assumed assumed assumed as as- It as as' a n surname did so 80 because because be be- cause caus It It suited their eyes hair or garments In England the first record Is of ot Gamel Gomel fil 61 Brun and John Broune of ot Stanford In 13 1377 7 Most of ot the early settlers of at America bearing this name came to New England and most of ot the Browns of or New England are descendants descendants descendants de de- of ot Thomas Brown and his wife Mary Newhall Thomas was born In Lynn Mass 1628 His ills father r w was s the settler a n mariner son of at Edward Ellward Brown of or row Worcestershire England He was at Lynn Mass In 1638 but butrem rem removed d to Reading Mass In 1603 I The three sons of It Thomas Brown and Mary were vere were Thomas John and Eleazer Thomas lived In Stoning Stonington ton Conn Ills ten children established lashed the foundation for a long line of at descendants In tn New Ragland Rag Eng England Eng England land as as' as did also his brother Joh Johns John's s 's family of ten John Brown n rown of Mass was a Revolutionary war soldier and his d descendants h hold 11 to the tradition tradition tra tra- that he was a descendant of ot John Brown the Covenanter who suffered martyrdom for his religious r n principles In the time ot of Queen Elizabeth The story Is told that he was shot down before his bis own door and in the presence of his wife and children by one a aleader aleader leader of a company of soldiery I s sent nt to seek him out He lie had been kept hidden but revealed himself I when the guards began begun to torture his little dau daughter by hanging her herby herby herby by her thumbs In n order t to force the secret of her fathers father's whereabouts He Ile Heas was as told that he had only five I minutes to live which Ii he spent In prayer Cl This so Impressed the soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers that the they refused to fire Ore upon him Their leader lemler then cruelly cruells fired Ored and killed the unarmed unarmed unarmed un un- un- un armed am and Innocent man The descendants desa of this John JohnBrown JohnBrown Brown were eie Geurge Henry and William sons of the widow Chris Chris- Christian tian Brown who settled In New NewEn En England Geor George e In and William Willlam and Henry In Salisbury Mass George Brown of Salisbury was a n soldier In King Philips Philip's war and a n representative to the general court of the colon colony A Cromwell pHE n Cromwell fatally family Is a ver very veryL T TIIE L ancient one and Is of Welsh ex- ex x- x ti traction action The original name was not Cromwell Crom but Williams and Morgan was the progenitor tor of the family In En England The stor story Is that Morgan Wil Wll- Williams liams IIams a Welshman married a sister sister sister sis sis- sis sis- ter of Thomas Lord Lard Cromwell Cronwell who later became earl of Essex In accordance with n a rule of Henry VIII to abolish all distinction between heI hp- hp I I tween the tho Welsh and the English he requested that Richard WIllI Williams ms I VI toot Cv f lJ n a descendant w of ur Morgan tJI take e the name of Cromwell The rhe grandson n p of of Cromwell 01 or William was Sir Ir IrOll Oll Oliver r ell Cromwell who was an IlU uncle of the Lord Prot Protector ec lr o of England It was through Sir Oliver that the American are de de- Ills descendant John Cromwell carne came to America with the colony lG Goud and settled In New cw Rochelle N N. N Y O C Public Ledger Inc W-Of W |